Sunday, 10 June 2018

The Sixties Sound Of Motown

This review is about the SOUND, because most people know and love the tracks. The remastering on this is the best I have heard of Motown material. It has the warmest, biggest, bassiest, booming sound around. If you like your music that way, and I do, then you will love this. Before you ask, yes, they ARE the original recordings.Check out "Behind A Painted Smile" or "Bernadette". Mind blowingly good. Makes one's walls shake. The best "Tears Of A Clown" around too - always a difficult one to remaster with that "shaky" intro when the percussion kicks in.Great to get tracks from the much underrated Jr. Walker & The All-Stars, Marv Johnson and Edwin Starr alongside the old favourites. Gladys Knight & The Pips too, whose Motown work is often overlooked.If you require a sonically brilliant introduction to Motown you simply cannot go wrong with this one. I come back to it again and again. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - "Nowhere To Run". Motown Heaven.A

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About Me

I was born in the late 1950s, into the rock n roll years. My musical taste covers largely the late 50s to the 90s, although there are favourite artists of mine who are still releasing material now, that I still like, of course. My tastes include Rock, Soul, Reggae, Northern Soul, Motown, Blues, Jazz, Folk, Country, Funk, Disco, Glam, World Music, New Wave, Punk, Two Tone.
The opinions I express in these reviews are just that, opinions, nothing more, nothing less. If I don't like as album as much as you do, don't hold it against me! Music is all about opinions. I am not writing these reviews to provide information as to who played what, who produced the album, what barcode it has etc. There are many books and bloggers that do that. I am just wishing to express how much I like the albums in question. Sometimes I listen to a song and I just want to write down what I feel about it. Just a personal indulgence.
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After spending most of my life in the South of England, attending hundreds of gigs, particularly in the punk era, I now live a quiet life in the Scottish Borders.